ISTANBUL (AA) – China has expressed its “deep” disappointment over the US vetoing a UN Security Council resolution on the Palestinian-Israeli situation. “China is deeply disappointed at the US blocking a UN Security Council resolution on the Palestinian-Israeli situation,” said Mao Ning, spokeswoman for China’s Foreign Ministry. The Secu...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel said Monday there was no temporary truce to allow aid in or foreigners out of the Gaza Strip, where desperation was mounting among millions of Palestinians trapped in the heavily bombarded enclave with little food or water. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to Israel Monday before a loomin...
Beijing, China — AFP EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said that a plan by Israel to evacuate more than one million people out of northern Gaza was “utterly impossible to implement”. Israel warned residents in the area on Friday to evacuate before an expected ground offensive against the impoverished, besieged territo...
Beijing, China — AFP An Israeli embassy worker in Beijing has been attacked, Israel’s foreign ministry said. Video geolocated by AFP shows the man was stabbed with a knife on a street in the Chinese capital. “An Israeli employee of the Israeli embassy in Beijing was attacked today,” a foreign ministry statement said, ad...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Pakistani counterpart Jalil Abbas Jilani met in Tibet on Thursday to discuss multi-billion dollars China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The two top diplomats met on the sidelines of the Third Trans-Himalaya Forum for International Cooperation in Tibet Autonomous Region. Emph...
Malé, Maldives – AFP The president-elect of the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu, has marked his victory with a pledge to end the foreign military presence in his small but strategically placed atoll nation. Muizzu, 45, addressing his first public rally after winning Saturday’s runoff election stopped short of naming India, the only foreig...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Mawlavi Amir Khan Muttaqi left for China on Tuesday to attend the third meeting of the Trans-Himalayan Forum. According to the Afghan Foreign Ministry, the forum will discuss economic cooperation, regional connectivity, and climate changes in the countries around the Himalayan mountai...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Indonesia on Monday launched South Asia’s first high-speed train. “I declare ‘Whoosh’ is ready to be operated,” President Joko Widodo said about the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) train at a ceremony. “Whoosh” signifies the sound of a fast train and stands for “time-saving, optimal operat...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China and Syria have upgraded their bilateral relations to a “strategic partnership” during a summit meeting between Xi Jinping and his visiting Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad, Beijing said. Hua Chunying, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said the establishment of the strategic partnership “will be a ...
Hangzhou, China — AFP Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began his first official trip to China in almost two decades, with Beijing saying the visit will take ties to a “new level” as the Arab leader seeks financial support to help rebuild the devastated country after a long, brutal civil war. China is one of only […]